smallmancontrov

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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Who has time to talk about billions in emoluments and pumping+dumping the American Economy to insider trade war news when we are subject to such calamitous fraud as a wet-behind-the-ears PhD getting overly enthusiastic in their grant propos
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
As opposed to having built a career complaining about string theory on youtube?
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So shredding, mutating, and reassembling the genome is the minimum bar to slip it past the scanning? I thought you said you could just order it?
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
So what's your proposal? Lie about the risks enthusiastically enough that someone else does something useful?
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It was dishonest then for you to imply that readily accessible commercial labs didn't take reasonable precautions and it's dishonest now , too.
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
And one wouldn't make one from mRNA. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. Still: the difficulty isn't comparable to EUV machines or refining uranium and does not form a comfortable security barrier.
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Really? mRNA? What kind of meme nonsense is this? You really don't know anything about these protocols do you. Still, even though your estimates are silly, they aren't silly enough to change the conclusion that this isn't a c
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
The legit synthesis sites have been scanning and authorizing since before the internet was encrypted. You suggested otherwise, demibabs expressed surprise, and was correct to express surprise because your implication was incorrect. The blac
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The part where that service doesn't exist and isn't close to existing.
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
No, of course not. In 2010 I went to a guest lecture from a guy who worked on the scanning algorithm for IDT. A few years later, there was a minor scandal when someone in a nearby lab used a personal credit card for a purchase and got a big
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
No, tearing it down does not automatically make it better. The current system is far better at resisting these things than the proposed alternative would be.
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The Hobbes argument can be used to justify tyranny far worse than what we see. It does not prevent me from believing that substantial improvement is possible.
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"Carve me a naked guy. Make no mistakes."
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The electorate is what it is, but yes, I hope we can change the currently prevailing attitude.
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
> affordable That's the crux, isn't it? You aren't just dependent, you are dependent on a system that relentlessly stalks you with increased demands. You are tasked with keeping ahead of a pack of hunters who want to take
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Yep, conflict of interest is the elephant in the room and its absence from the "reducing risks from advanced AI" point list is conspicuous: * Figuring out how to prevent the incentives of frontier AI labs from aligning with anti-s
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Biology does an insane amount of packing and shipping in these spaces already and this is the stick against which we should measure potential modifications. While a neuron is active, vesicles will be riding up and down the axon tubules, she
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Contrastive learning provides an unusually strong push towards an offline solution, even though the offline solution is expensive. Road maintenance isn't a good analogy; it _can_ be done "online" (with traffic, during the day
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Right, but my argument is "high pressure never managed to push past this barrier, therefore it's a strong barrier." The existence of other, lower pressure circumstances doesn't have any bearing on the conclusion -- unles
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There are other known mechanisms in sleep, for example copying/condensing short-term to long-term memory by replaying it. Translating increased compression into better fundamental performance seems like a steep task and 50 year olds ha
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
That's great for primates, but what about nematodes? Everything with a nervous system sleeps, even when the cost is high.
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exactly!
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Why would neurons be exempt from training just because they weren't clustered into a brain? By comparison, transport-related phenomena are almost completely trivialized in the simple creatures. The existence of sleep in simple critters
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If you're safe.
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Sleep isn't about cleaning. It might include cleaning, but I don't believe for a second that cleaning is the main function. Why? Cleaning is easy to optimize yet sleep is evidently hard to optimize. Going unconscious for a big chu
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
They probably spent the bulk of their myst/riven fortune on Uru (a puzzle solving MMO, a year before World of Warcraft). It was bold and a very cool idea but didn't work out. They kept enough in reserve and have enough residual sa
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Thanks for replying in good faith, that's not usual in this day and age. In the US, the economic left is a minority wing of the Democratic party. Neoliberals are the majority and have been for the entire Sixth Party System. The "N
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Tilting the scale towards capital is a good idea when capital is the limiting factor on economic growth. A dollar invested rather than consumed brings two dollars in a few years time. Here's the thing: this is only really true in devel
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by smallmancontrov 2mo ago
Ah, the "let them eat iPhones" argument. No, cool tech does not make up for the ruinous cost of health care, housing, and education vs median wages. Maslow's Hierarchy still exists. A system that fails to deliver food and she
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It mischaracterizes the mask but accurately describes the face beneath it.

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